# Embassy Bomber Killed!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 12, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196 "2011-06-12T04:57:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/1 "2011-06-12T04:57:11Z")
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?hp](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?hp)
Whose next? Qadaffi?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/2 "2011-06-12T05:14:58Z")
\*Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust \*
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/3 "2011-06-12T06:57:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> “Mr. Mohammed, who was one of the most wanted men in Africa and had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States government, and another militant mistakenly drove up to a checkpoint run by Somali government soldiers late on Tuesday night.”
“Hey, Amal, you know how you didn’t show up Tuesday and I got stuck covering your checkpoint for you?”
“Yeah, what about it?”
“Sucks to be you, dude.”
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/4 "2011-06-12T13:18:29Z")
I just wonder if any intelligence that was lifted in the Osama mission was in use here.
Maybe not, but a bit of a coincidence that it has happened so quickly.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/5 "2011-06-12T13:33:23Z")
Hum. Seems _we_ had to step in and handle the “sanitation” process for the 2 Pakistan events, but the Somali’s got to do this one on their own. 'Sup with that Pakistan?
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/6 "2011-06-12T13:39:14Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> Hum. Seems _we_ had to step in and handle the “sanitation” process for the 2 Pakistan events, but the Somali’s got to do this one on their own. 'Sup with that Pakistan?
They have a hopeless cricket team? (I hope AK84 is not reading this).
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/7 "2011-06-12T13:46:10Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> I just wonder if any intelligence that was lifted in the Osama mission was in use here.
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> Maybe not, but a bit of a coincidence that it has happened so quickly.
I think that in this case it was an effect of Osama’s cache. As the terrorists involveld know that their network and connections are compromised, they have to risk using other ways to get to places and new curriers or helpers.
There are then better chances that they will get involveld with new people that do not have the same extreme views or to encounter local law enforcemt that did not know who he was or did not know of his schedule anymore.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/8 "2011-06-12T14:03:06Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> 'Sup with that Pakistan?
They’re still pissed we killed their ‘cash-cow’.
“Hey, lets go spend this months deposit into the ‘Pay Us to Pretend to find Intel on Bin Laden’ Fund. Wha…? No more money…?”
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/9 "2011-06-12T14:04:17Z")
We had friends and associates who were killed in the Nairobi embassy (we were posted in Kampala at the time). So fuck that motherfucker. It’s only too bad that he wasn’t aborted before birth. The planet is rid of another pestilence.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/10 "2011-06-12T14:39:44Z")
“Mr. Mohammed, who was one of the most wanted men in Africa and had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States government, and another militant mistakenly drove up to a checkpoint run by Somali government soldiers late on Tuesday night.”
Maybe they just had that “Mayhem” GPS car navigation system I’ve been seeing on TV.
TURN RIGHT!
sounds of gunfire
UPDATING!
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/11 "2011-06-12T16:27:17Z")
What surprised me when I heard the news on the radio was that there’s such a thing as Somali government soldiers.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/12 "2011-06-12T16:45:59Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?hp](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?hp)
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> Whose next? Qadaffi?
And you put this in The BBQ Pit because…?
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/13 "2011-06-12T18:12:18Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> I think that in this case it was an effect of Osama’s cache. As the terrorists involveld know that their network and connections are compromised, they have to risk using other ways to get to places and new curriers or helpers.
Maybe, but Mogadishu’s in such a constant state of flux that I kinda doubt networks and connections there are particularly static even in other times. Look up on wiki the “Battle of Magadishu”, you get a disambiguation page that has eight entries just for the last five years, with the latest offensive going on more or less right now.
So I suspect the official story is the real one, Fazul simply didn’t realize he was in a gov’t controlled part of the city until he reached a checkpoint.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/14 "2011-06-12T18:40:34Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> What surprised me when I heard the news on the radio was that there’s such a thing as Somali government soldiers.
That was my thought.
Wait!
Somalia has security checkpoints?
Somalia has security forces?
I’m thinking these guys just didn’t have any cash on hand to bribe their way past a warlord’s roadblock, and were stupid enough to shoot rather than back off or be captured and held for ransom.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/15 "2011-06-12T19:42:53Z")
[Here](http://postimage.org/image/s61r46x0/) is the Somali soldier who delivered the fatal shot. He was subsequently promoted to Colonel.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/16 "2011-06-12T19:52:44Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#):
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> [Here](http://postimage.org/image/s61r46x0/) is the Somali soldier who delivered the fatal shot. He was subsequently promoted to Colonel.
Colonel White.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/17 "2011-06-12T20:06:29Z")
He’s very pale for a Somali.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/18 "2011-06-12T20:59:56Z")
The blank expression really says it all.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/19 "2011-06-12T21:43:23Z")
[Here](http://postimage.org/image/s61r46x0/) is the Somali soldier who delivered the fatal bullet.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embassy-bomber-killed/585196/20 "2011-06-12T21:54:12Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> Colonel White.
He can be General Butt Naked soon now.
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